Nightmare Attack

"This isn't a vacation."

The fat man seemed to have thought of something, his face turned pale and he said, "So you mean Sister Nuan just now is a ghost?"

"I'm afraid that's the case." Jiang Cheng nodded.

"Isn't it really Sister Nuan and the girl named Chen Xiaomeng in the house?"

"Okay," Jiang Cheng interrupted him and said after a few seconds, "Let's go to the living room."

In order not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, Jiang Cheng did not deliberately step lightly when he went down the stairs. But when he and Fatty came downstairs, there was only a burning firewood in the fireplace.

Fan Li, who was supposed to be by the fireplace, disappeared.

The fat man was a little scared and asked, "Could something happen to him too?"

Jiang Cheng glanced around and then said: "Come out, we are humans, not ghosts."

As soon as he finished speaking, a figure as strong as a bear stood up from behind the sofa. Fan Li stared at them with a vigilant face, a sharp knife in his hand reflecting the cold light.

"Why are you down here?" He quickly glanced at the stairs and then focused his gaze on Jiang Cheng's face, "Where are the other two people?"

"Something happened to them."

Fan Li stared at them suspiciously. According to his previous inference, women should be safe in this mission. How could such a thing happen?

The fat man spoke quickly and told Fan Li what happened just now.

Fan Li's expression changed slightly, and then he sighed, "According to what you said, they are probably in danger."

More than just a misfortune, Fatty thought to himself, it would be good if they didn't die as ugly as Xie Yu.

Now that the ghost has appeared tonight, relatively speaking, the three people in Jiangcheng are much safer. But after what happened just now, even the fat man lost his sleep.

"It's better to rest for a while," Jiang Cheng said, "I won't sleep. I'll wake you up in two hours."

Fan Li might have experienced this kind of thing a lot and was used to it. Anyway, he lay down, not on the sofa, but in front of the fireplace.

No one knew whether he was really sleeping, and the sharp knife collected in the kitchen was put away by him and should be hidden somewhere on his body.

Just by the warmth of the fire, Fatty's nerves began to waver. He hadn't had a complete sleep for a long time, and only the remaining consciousness was still holding on.

He sat on the sofa, the scene in front of him becoming blurry.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already dark. Jiang Cheng and Fan Li were gathering together and discussing something in a low voice. Jiang Cheng's expression looked about the same as usual, but Fan Li was a little excited from time to time.

The fat man moved, and the sofa made a slight sound of pressure.

Jiang Cheng turned his head, looked at him and said, "Are you awake?"

"Well," the fat man rubbed his face in embarrassment, "it's dawn, should we go upstairs and take a look."

"Don't worry, let's wait until it's all daylight."

In this way, they waited for about half an hour. During this period, the three of them simply ate some bread and the like, barely filling their stomachs.

When it was all daylight, Jiang Cheng stood up and said it was almost done. The three of them picked up the things in their hands and started to go upstairs along the stairs.

Fan Li still held the sharp knife from last night, and Jiang Cheng had a rolling pin in his hand. The fat man saw that there was nothing left in the kitchen, so he took the cutting board away and held it against his chest as a shield.

The three of them slowly came to the corridor on the second floor and approached the master bedroom little by little.

At this time, they were already sure that something must have happened to Sister Nuan and the others.

The master bedroom door was a third of the way open, but there was no sound from inside.

Jiang Cheng stretched out his hand and pushed the door open.

The fat man immediately raised the cutting board.

They were originally prepared to see two corpses, or even a ghost coming towards them, but when the door opened, there was nothing inside.

No bodies, no ghosts, no blood.

There wasn't even a trace of a struggle.

The quilts in the room were neatly folded, the things on the tables and chairs were in order, and there was a silk nightgown draped on the sofa, as if the hostess had just left.

"Where are the people?" the fat man asked with wide eyes.

Jiang Cheng went to check under the bed, while Fan Li sullenly went to the closet, then the bathroom, and finally after the sofa, they even searched several nearby rooms, including the one where Xie Yu's body was found.

No.

nothing.

Sister Nuan and Chen Xiaomeng seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

Jiang Cheng thought for a while and suddenly said to Fan Li: "Is there a possibility that the two of them are not dead and have successfully left here?"

"You mean they have completed their mission?" Fan Li's face was gloomy and uncertain, but he still replied after a moment: "The possibility is very small, but this possibility cannot be ruled out."

The fat man interjected, "If that's the case, how do you explain the ghost we met last night?"

Jiang Cheng knew what Fatty wanted to say. Since the ghost turned into Sister Nuan and appeared in the master bedroom where Sister Nuan and Chen Xiaomeng were, they should have encountered it.

Before meeting the ghost last night, Jiang Cheng had been on the second floor. He didn't hear the sound of anyone walking in the corridor, which meant that Sister Nuan and Sister Nuan did not leave the room.

The windows in the villa cannot be opened, so there is no possibility of leaving through the windows.

So either Sister Nuan and Sister Nuan had been killed by the ghost, but their bodies were hidden, or Sister Nuan and Sister Nuan had completed their mission before the ghost appeared, left the dream world and returned to the real world.

Regarding the way to leave the mission, Fan Li gave his own experience. He said that usually after finding all the clues, a black iron door will appear.

Through that door, you can return to the real world.

But he also emphasized that black iron gates can appear in any location, but generally they are not too remote, and most of them are related to important clues in the mission.

"Like the iron door we pushed open in our dream?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Fan Li nodded, "Yes, you can think of it as a passage connecting the dream world and the real world."

Back in the living room on the first floor, Jiang Cheng sat on the thick carpet. Fan Li and Fatty also sat down, opposite Jiang Cheng.

The situation they face now is somewhat complicated.

"Okay," Jiang Cheng raised his head and said, "Now let's assume that Sister Nuan and the others have successfully left here. Let's think about how they did it."

The fat man shrank his neck and hesitated, "But why do I think the two of them were killed by ghosts?"

Jiang Cheng looked at him and said coldly: "This question is meaningless. If you insist that they have been killed by ghosts, then we will just wait to die."

Fatty was frightened by Jiang Cheng's attitude and didn't dare to speak for a while.

Fan Li then nodded and said, "You are right, Sister Nuan and the others must have found a way to leave!"

"So it's our turn next," Jiang Cheng patted his trouser legs and stood up.